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The Making of America II is
a Digital Library Federation project to create a proposed digital library
object standard by encoding defined descriptive, administrative and structural
metadata, along with the primary content, inside a digital library object. |
A standard digital library object will promote:
The DTD can be used to define a transfer syntax to move
digital objects between repositories, between a repository and a viewer,
etc.
A standard object encoding will allow digital library
architectures to be built on scalable digital object technologies (OOD,
the JAVA Enterprise Model, RMI, CORBA, etc.), as opposed to gluing a digital
library together with CGI scripts and HTML
Archiving and migrating well defined objects to new
technologies will certainly be easier than dealing with many proprietary
encodings (e.g., Berkeley’s digital object encoding for a book, Stanford’s
encoding, etc.)
The cornerstone of the MoA II effort an XML DTD that defines
the digital object’s elements and encoding. The project has also developed
a relational database that allows a library to capture the metadata, a
program that reads the database and automatically creates the XML encoded
digital objects, a repository manager that provides distributed network
access to the objects (via RMI) and a viewer that displays MoA II objects
from the repository.
Questions about this project may be directed to Rick
Beaubien, Lead Software Engineer, Research & Development or to,
Bernie Hurley, Director
for Library Technologies, University of California, Berkeley Library.
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